From 8ed9d333d5eafa7f09e5019c1f862fa0e51a157f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:20:32 -0400 Subject: git page: say alias, not assumed name. alias is understood better Most people don't know what "assumed" means. --- (limited to 'site/git') diff --git a/site/git/index.php b/site/git/index.php index f063060..d36fbdf 100644 --- a/site/git/index.php +++ b/site/git/index.php @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ (such as coreboot) require a legal name, which can be problematic for certain groups of people.

- Using your legal name is not required when submitting patches to libreboot. For reasons why we have this policy, read this article. You can use an assumed name, or your company name (if you have one), if you want or need to do that. You can also + Using your legal name is not required when submitting patches to libreboot. For reasons why we have this policy, read this article. You can use an alias, or your company name (if you have one), if you want or need to do that. You can also submit patches without a name, if you want or need to do that (instructions are provided on this page). Also, read this article. Unfortunately, git appears to be stuck with these problems, when an author changes their name, and we don't have a concrete answer to it. As far as we know, publishing your legal name isn't even required for copyright purposes; in fact, "pen" names are commonly used by literary authors.

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@

If you wish to use a different author name for the commit command, add --author="Author's Name <author's email address>" at the end. This - could be an assumed name, or it could be because you are submitting a patch on someone else's + could be an alias, or it could be because you are submitting a patch on someone else's behalf. If you wish to be anonymous (no name), you can also use Libreboot Contributor as your name, and noname@libreboot.org as the email address. We will happily accept anonymous contributions in the libreboot project.

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